This Movie About Gorillas In Zaire took SEVEN Years To Make (Incredible Story) | Our World

Mountain Gorilla, a one-hour Survival film, is an enthralling intimate study of family life in the world of nature’s gentle giants Subscribe to Our World: And of the impact of man’s turbulent politics on that world. For the first time ever in a wildlife film, wild gorillas have the time to reveal their personalities and the viewer can really share their daily activities. Cameraman Bruce Davidson spent seven years filming this extraordinary portrait of a group of wild gorillas, following the fortunes of each member of the tribe. What develops is a family saga rich in grand themes of any human drama - death, adolescent rebellion, jealousy and parenthood. The Programme was filmed in Zaire, one of the most spectacular and politically unstable regions of Africa. Far beneath the gorilla domain the hard volcanic rock has become home to thousands of refugees fleeing Rwanda. Daily more and more people venture into the forest in search of fuel. It is a human crisis, which now thre